Constituency
117. Satgachia
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-SATGACHIA
CPM 54.1%won by 19.9%INC 34.1%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 17.7% to 19.9%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 88.2% between them, down from 96.6% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
1,01,347
Margin
20,195
19.93%
Candidates
11 contested · winner CPM- 1JYOTI BASUCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM54,79854.1%
- 2AMAR BHATTACHARYAIndian National Congress · INC34,60334.1%
- 3BIMAL MAITRABharatiya Janata Party · BJP8,5988.5%
- 4SEIKH RABIALIndependent · IND1,4651.4%
- 5MUKUNDA LAL PAULIndependent · IND4130.4%
- 6HAZI SAUKAT ALIIndependent · IND3810.4%
- 7SHIVAJI PRASAD GUPTAJanahitha Paksha · JP3050.3%
- 8SRITAN DASBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2390.2%
- 9SAHAJAN MALLICKIndependent · IND2330.2%
- 10INDUBHUSAN ROYIndependent · IND2150.2%
- 11SANTIMOY MUKHERJEEIndependent · IND970.1%
Since 1987
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +2.3%
- CPM share
- 57.1% → 54.1%
- INC share
- 39.5% → 34.1%
- Turnout
- — → —